Company Information for Alto Ventures Ltd
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Company Statement
Alto Ventures Ltd. is a TSX Ventures Exchange listed company trading under the symbol ATV. Alto is a gold exploration company with a portfolio of properties in the Canadian Shield.
The Company is focused on projects located within the Abitibi greenstone belt of Ontario and Quebec as well as in historic gold producing districts including Beardmore and Shebandowan.
The Company strategy is to develop early and mid stage projects that have the potential to maximize the opportunities associated with initial discovery.
Current Operations
Beardmore-Geraldton Gold Belt, Ontario
Mud Lake Project, Ontario
Highlights
- Gold mineralization discovered along 6 km shear zone
- Twelve gold occurrences identified by trenching.
- Drilling intersected up to 13.9 g/t gold across 1.0 m within 6.1 m wide mineralized zone averaging 3.3 g/t gold
- Induced Polarization survey outlined 20 anomalies
Greenoaks Project, Ontario
Highlights
- Five gold zones traced for over 500 m on surface
- Historical drilling intersected up to 35.3 g/t gold across 3.2 m
- Drilling by Alto intersected 12.5 g/t gold across 0.4 m and 7.08 g/t gold across 0.8 m
- Surface channel samples returned 34.1 g/t across 1 metre
Cote-Archie, Ontario
Highlights
- Covers 12 km of prospective ground
- On strike with the historic Leitch Mine (past production 860,000 ounces of gold at 0.92oz/ton (31.5 grams per tonne)
- Up to 27 g/t at the Cote Showing
- Kodiak Exploration earning 51% interest by funding $1 million in exploration over 3 years
Three Towers Project, Ontario
Highlights
- Gold-bearing shear zone traced for over 500 m on surface
Sampling returned up to 15.5 g/t gold
Location and Access - Walters and Leduc townships, 23 km east of Beardmore Ontario, near the junction of Trans Canada Highway 11 and Secondary Provincial Highway 801, 7 km south of Alto's Mud Lake Property
- Access by Trans Canada Highway 11 and Secondary Provincial Highway 801
Expansion Lake Project, Ontario
Highlights
- New Project east of Mud Lake and south of Kodiak's Hercules Project
- The next stage of exploration will include ground geophysics in preparation for diamond drilling<//font>
Miner Lake Property Summary
Highlights
- located in the Beardmore-Geraldton Gold Belt
- high grade gold up to 25.2 g/t in grab samples
- wide zones of anomalous gold (9.4m averaging 0.43m
- target large-tonnage bulk mineable deposits
- gold is associated with copper sulphides (chalcopyrite)
- property under-explored
Despinassy, Quebec
Destiny Project, Quebec
Highlights
- In 2008 Alto completed the acquisition of 100% interest in the Destiny Project
- NI 43-101 compliant resource estimate completed for the DAC Deposit
- High grade gold veins include 5.1 g/t over 9.7 m and 178.5 g/t over 1.0 m
- The DAC deposit has an indicated resource of 167,000 tonnes averaging 6.88 grams per tonne (g/t) gold plus an inferred resource of 445,000 tonnes averaging 4.46 g/t gold for total of approximately 101,000 contained ounces.
- DAC Deposit open along strike and to depth
- DAC Deposit is one of several significant gold occurrences along 6 km shear zone
- Darla Zone discovered in 2006 lies 1 km east of DAC Deposit, intersected 19.5 g/t gold across 2.1 m
- Airborne surveys in 2008 identified new targets
Vassal, Quebec
Highlights
- new grass-roots targets in a major gold producing belt
- located on strike from Destiny Gold Project
- targets include Abitibi-style shear-hosted quartz vein systems and gold rich VMS deposits similar to the LaRonde Mine, Quebec
- numerous airborne VTEM and magnetic anomaly targets
- excellent access
Coldstream, Ontario
Highlights
- Gold discovered along 10 km corridor of strong alteration and deformation
- Historical resource of 5.1 million tonnes* at an average grade of 1.4 g/t gold (234,000 ounces) estimated for the East Coldstream Gold Deposit by Noranda in 1990
- Drilling by Alto intersected wide gold zones up to 68 m averaging 1.21 g/t gold
- Higher grade intercepts include 37.7 g/t gold across 1.0 m and 22.6 g/t across 1.3 m
- Deposit is open along strike and to depth
- New style of mineralization consistent with Iron-Oxide-Copper-Gold (IOCG) type deposits recognized on the property
- Several other gold zones drilled near the southwest end of the property including 0.95 g/t gold across 34 m
- The northeast end (the QES Zone) of the 51 million tonnes (1.5 million ounces) Moss Lake Gold Deposit abuts against the southwest boundary of the Coldstream Property
Oxford Lake, Manitoba
Highlights
- Gold bearing structure traced for over 2 km in favourable geological setting
- Historical resource estimate of 800,000 tonnes* averaging 6 g/t gold and containing 154,000 ounces
- Other targets include Rusty Point with historical intersections of 4.6 g/t gold across 3.7 m and Blue Jay Island returning up to 10 g/t gold across 2.0 m
- Drilling is required on Rusty Zone, Rusty Point and Blue Jay to evaluate their potential
Other Projects
Dog Lake Project, Ontario
Highlights
- Prospecting by Alto returned 26.8 g/t gold in shear zone
- Shear zone up to 25 m wide was traced for 1.5 km
Empress Project, Ontario
Highlights
- Located in the prolific Hemlo-Schreiber Greenstone Belt
- Previous drilling obtained up to 44.2 g/g gold across 0.61 m
- Property is drill ready and accessible year-round
Alcudia Project, Quebec
Highlights
- Immediately east of Noront's Windfall Property where underground exploration is in progress
- Several geophysical (EM and IP) anomalies but no previous drilling
Geographical Spread

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Board of Directors and Key Management
| Marian (Mike) Koziol | President, CEO and Director |
| Richard Mazur | Director |
| Kenneth Judge | Chairman of the Board of Directors |
| Paul C. M. Roberts | Director |
| David Cowan | Director |
| Kerry Beamish | CFO |
| Jacqueline Collins | Corporate Secretary |
Company AddressSuite 910 - 475 Howe Street
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Additional Address/Key ContactToll Free: 1-866-689-2599 |
CapitalShares Outstanding 95,995,455
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Annual General MeetingDecember 10th 2009 | Year EndJune 30th 2009 |
Related News
19/08/09 - Alto Ventures Adds Further Upside To Its Gold Exploration Portfolio In Ontario24/03/09 - Alto Ventures Has A Three Way Canadian Gold Play
Most Recent Statement
12/01/10 - Alto Ventures Joins Information Portal StockProfile.com07/01/10 - Drilling to Commence on the Vassal Gold Project, Quebec
10/12/09 - ALTO ANNOUNCES FLOW THROUGH FINANCING
03/12/09 - High Grade Gold Intersected in the First Five Diamond Drill Holes at the DAC Deposit, Destiny Gold Project, Quebec
01/12/09 - Coldstream Property Expanded to Include the Highly Prospective Iris Zone, Coldstream Gold Property, Ontario
24/11/09 - Trenching at the Goldie Zone Succeeds in Developing Drill Ready Targets on the Coldstream Gold Property, Ontario



